tobacco

Other forms of tobacco

plural

tobaccoes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tobacco

What does tobacco mean?

tobacco means "leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tobacco?

tobacco has 3 syllables: to-bac-co. The stress falls on "bac". In IPA it is /təˈbæˌkoʊ/.

What is another word for tobacco?

Close synonyms include baccy, tobacco plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tobacco a common word?

tobacco is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tobacco?

17 words rhyme with tobacco. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.